November 19 (SeeNews) - Croatian port operator Luka Rijeka said on Monday it expects cargo traffic to reach 5.5 million tonnes in 2007, up 10% on the year.
Container traffic should amount to around 150,000 twenty-feet equivalent units (TEUs) this year, Luka Rijeka said in a statement to the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE), adding that the growth trend of the recent years persists. The port operator gave no comparative figures.
In the first half of the year the port handled 2.682 million tonnes of cargo, 6.0% more than in the same period a year earlier, the company said in an earlier statement to ZSE.
Croatia's largest sea port operator Luka Rijeka ( www.lukarijeka.hr) is majority state-owned.
Luka Rijeka is one of the 30 members of the Crobex index of the Zagreb bourse. The company’s shares traded at 800 kuna on the ZSE on Monday, down from Friday’s closing of 829 kuna.